João Pombeiro (Leiria, Portugal) offers us a magic trick that plays on the gap between what is apparent and what is real, between what is seen and what is taken as being true. This game takes the form of a recorder job interview in which the interviewee?s skill is to disappear. The work is reminiscent of Méliès and his stop trick, in which an object becomes invisible simply as a result of cutting out a frame in the film. In this case, however, it is no fiction, but rather a real scene. Whilst with films we expect to see things that are physical impossibility, when it comes to homemade videos, which are a reflection of everyday things, this outcome proves to be as unexpected as it is absurd. To our surprise, we discover that something initially created as a means of providing a simple testimony of our daily life can also serve to manipulate it.?Interview? thus becomes a metaphor for the communications media, but in modern guise. Just as the first film audiences fled in terror, convinced that they were going to be run over by a train that came speeding towards them, so we unblinkingly contemplate an obvious manipulation of daily reality. The great difference is that in this case nobody is ever going to confess that the trick exists, wanting us, as they do, to believe that what we are seeing is nothing but a reflection of reality. And, although Méliès old trick is rather a brazen one, we only have to sit front of the TV to realise that the on-screen lies that we believe nowadays are much bigger than that, such as the search for non-existent WMDs as a justification for destroying an entire country.